Company Awarded Podcast Patent

I podcast, you podcast, we all podcast, right? Yeah, but our days may be number. Northern Californian media advertising company VoloMedia was awarded, "...the fundamental mechanisms of podcasting, including providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device."

I podcast, you podcast, we all podcast. But our days may be numbered. Northern Californian media advertising company VoloMedia was awarded "the fundamental mechanisms of podcasting, including providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device."

The company recently let go of its sales team, but it tells NewTeeVee that it's "not talking about violation or litigation." Whether that means that it's not pursue such matters or simply not discussing them with the media seems unclear. In the meantime, VoloMedia founder, Murgesh Navar, added that the company was talking to Apple and others "about growing the business and market."

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.
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